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One of the leading branding companies in the world, Apple is currently working on a ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ (BNPL) service as part of its latest operating system, iOS 16. Apple Pay Later will be designed to allow users in the United States to spread the cost of a purchase into four payments in instalments…
In a surprising strategy switch, popular social audio app, Clubhouse has laid off several employees as part of its broader restructuring model of growth and optimisation. According to BLoomberg, while some employees chose to leave on their own as the company cut back some of the programming areas it had focused on before, such as…
Of all the new releases at Watches and Wonders, the international watch trade show in Geneva that took place earlier this year, it was the hardest one not to miss. The name alone was huge: TAG Heuer Aquaracer Professional 1000 Superdiver. A big name for a big 45-mm-diameter watch, it boasts a dodecagonal black-and-orange bezel,…
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American multinational e-commerce company, Amazon is shutting down its Kindle bookstore in China, which marks yet another retreat by a Western tech giant in the world’s second biggest economy. Amazon announced that from July 2023, Kindle users will not be able to buy online books in the country. However, existing customers will be able to…
American billionaire, Elon Musk wants to slash 10% of jobs at his company Tesla over reportedly “having a super bad feeling” about the American economy. In an email he sent to company executives earlie this week and seen by Reuters, Musk explained that he has a “super bad feeling” about the economy and wants to…
As the city of Shanghai gradually recovers from its strict COVID restrictions, Starbucks, American multinational chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves is reopening. The city lifted its 2-month long lockdown barely 72 hours ago and so far, Starbucks has reopened about 600 of its 940 stores in the city or Shanghai, according to a Starbucks…
Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer CEO, Dave Clark has resigned from his role at the company after 23 years at the e-commerce giant. His resignation, which took effect on July 1 was announced by Amazon in a regulatory filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission Friday. Clark also too to his Twitter account where he wrote:…
Tesla reportedly paid a consultancy firm to monitor employees’ Facebook interactions when some workers wanted to form a union at the company’s factory in Fremont, California. CNBC cited invoices and “other documents” that reportedly showed MWW PR monitored employees’ discussions on the platform regarding the company’s labor practices and a sexual harassment lawsuit. MWW PR…
Australia-based design software firm Canva announced Wednesday it is pulling out of Russia, after coming under intense pressure from Australian-Ukrainian activists. The company cut off payments from Russia soon after the country invaded Ukraine, but kept its free service available there with anti-war design templates and banners. That decision led to protests outside Canva’s Sydney…
Apple will no longer be making iPods, the trend-setting MP3 players that transformed how people get music and gave rise to the iPhone. The compnay had made this official in May and if you’re yet to say your “goodbye” to the device, now would be a good time. Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs introduced the…
South Korean car manufacturer, Hyundai has revealed plans to build a $5.5 billion electric vehicle and battery plant in the southern US state of Georgia. This was disclosed by the Governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp alongside Hyundai Motor Company president Jay Chang at the future factory site near Savannah, hailing the more than 8,000 jobs…
If you live in the UK and you have a soft spot for some of the delicious items that Burger King has to offer then we have good news for you. The fast food restaurant has slashed the price of its Royale sandwiches from £5 to just £1.99 to mark the Platinum Jubilee of Queen…
As a direct reaction to low customer numbers as well as a shift to online banking, Barclays Bank is closing another 27 bank branches, and will have closed a total 103 branches of the bank by the end of 2022. According to Which? reports, Brits are already grappling with a wave of bank branch closures,…
These are not the best of times for Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates as the trio have have suffered a collective loss of $115 billion in their net worth over the past five months as stock markets tumbled. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Musk’s worth has dropped by $46.4 billion, Bezos is…
Billionaire businessman, Elon Musk has reportedly received approval from the Federal Government of Nigeria to launch his Starlink network, a high-speed, low-latency broadband internet in remote and rural locations across the globe in Nigeria. With this approval, Musk is expected to compete with Nigeria’s household names like MTN, Airtel, 9mobile, Globacom, Swift, Spectranet, Mainone, FibreOne,…
Social media giant, Twitter has been fined to the tune of $150 million in the United States for illegally selling users’ data to sell targeted ads in a breach of confidentiality. According to the The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice, Twitter violated an agreement it had with regulators and there were…
Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the organisation behind former United States President, Donald Trumps’s social media app, ‘Truth Social has revealed plans to launch a brand new “non-woke” streaming service, which will be knows as TMTG+. According to TMTG, the streaming service will be subscription based and will only feature “non-woke” content, which will…
Despite the wave of anticipation that has greeted the release of the iPhone 14 Max, the device is currently about 3 week’s behind schedule due to the impact of lockdowns on Apple’s supply chains in China. This was revealed by Jeff Pu, a Haitong International Securities analyst. He added that iPhone that is expected to…
Italian high-end luxury fashion designer, Gucci and Finnish health technology company, Oura have entered into a partnership to create a Gucci x Oura Ring that costs $950. The ring weighs 4 grams, has a band measurement that is 0.3 inches think and is made out of “black synthetic corundum” detailed with a braided border and…
It’s official! In what could go down as one of the biggest deals in the history of tech business acquisitions, American chipmaker, Broadcom has concluded plans to acquire VMware in a $61 billion cash-and-stock deal. The deal falls behind Dell’s $67 billion EMC deal and Microsoft’s pending acquisition of Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion but…
American sport giant, Nike is on the verge of pulling its brand out of Russia following its stand not to renew Nike’s agreements with authorised resellers in Russia.This is coming at a sensitive time as contracts between two of Nike’s largest authorised Russian retailers is set to expire in less than 24 hours (on May…
Have you ever cast your mind on the specific mobile phone that American business magnate, billionaire and co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates uses? The cat has finally been let out of the bag and the mobile phone that Bill Gates used everyday is not an iPhone or even a mobile device made by his own…
WhatsApp is finally planning to drop support to a few more iOS devices soon, as the company will no longer work with iPhones running iOS 10 and iOS 11 starting later this year. Here’s what you need to know. According to WABetaInfo, the company is now warning iPhone users running iOS 10 or iOS 11…
The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline spiked 33 cents over the past two weeks to $4.71 per gallon. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that the price jump comes amid higher crude oil costs and tight gasoline supplies. The average price at the pump is $1.61 higher than it was…
Tesla CEo, Elon Musk has said that Twitter refuses to explain how they calculate bots and called it ‘very suspicious.’ Musk suggested Saturday that his agreement to purchase Twitter for $44 billion and take it private should be cut proportionate to the number of bots on the platform. Musk tweeted “Absolutely” in response to from…
Goodbye iPod, hello Eyes Pod. According to a report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple has demonstrated a new Apple-made VR headset to its board. Such a product has been rumored for a while and has reportedly been in development at Apple since 2015. We don’t yet know what it looks like or much about its…
A former employee has accused Wells Fargo of scheduling fake interviews with black and female candidates for roles that were already filled in order to boost the bank’s diversity statistics. Former Wells Fargo wealth management executive Joe Bruno, 58, claims he was fired last August after he blew the whistle to his bosses about the…
Mercedes-Benz confirmed on Thursday that it recently sold the world’s most expensive car. A very rare 1955 Mercedes-Benz SLR coupe that had been kept in the German automaker’s collection was sold to a private owner for €135 million, the equivalent of $142 million. That price makes it the most expensive car known to ever have…
There are 300,000 edible plant species but in 2018, just four crops made up half of global production, and three — rice, maize, and wheat — accounted for 86% of all exports. Christoph Langwallner, co-founder and CEO of WhatIF Foods, wants to change that. His startup is on a mission to diversify the food system…
The Scout, a one-time competitor to Ford Broncos and Jeeps that was last sold more than four decades ago, is being resurrected by Volkswagen as a line of all-electric trucks and SUVs. Scout will become its own separate brand offering off-road-oriented electric trucks and SUVs in North America. A Scout SUV and pickup truck are…
Coke knows that its soda caps often end up as litter. So it’s trying to solve the problem by tethering them to the bottle, at least in the United Kingdom. Earlier this week, the British arm of the beverage company announced that it has started rolling out new versions of its plastic bottles. The new…
Mike Novogratz broke his silence on the TerraUSD meltdown, calling it a “big idea that failed” and warning that the tough environment for cryptocurrencies will continue. The founder of Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. and big backer of Terraform Labs, the company behind Terra and Luna, had gone silent for a week. Novogratz spent the time…
Melvin Capital, once one of Wall Street’s most successful hedge funds which then lost billions in the meme stock saga, will shut down after it was hit again by this year’s market slump. Gabe Plotkin, widely regarded as one of the industry’s best traders after posting years of double digit returns, told investors that the…
Who wants to own Twitter? Maybe Elon Musk doesn’t. Sure, maybe he is causing chaos to extract a lower price from the Twitter board, but he just as well may walk away altogether and create a Twitter clone. There is a “60%+ chance from our view Musk ultimately walks from the deal and pays the…
Apple has delayed plans to bring workers back to the office three days a week as COVID cases in its home state of California surged once again. The tech company blamed recent Covid-19 surges in California for the delay of the three day a week requirement. Workers must still come in two days a week,…
Nestlé is rushing baby formula into the United States via airfreight in a bid to ease a nationwide shortage that is unnerving parents around the country. In a statement to CNN on Tuesday, Nestlé said it is flying in some baby formula produced outside the United States, including Gerber Good Start Extensive HA from the…
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II made a surprise public appearance at the opening of a long-awaited train line in London on Tuesday. The monarch, walking with a stick, wore a bright yellow outfit and hat at Paddington station, in west London, to open the Elizabeth line, which is named in her honor. She was given a…
The US has warned that IT workers from North Korea are trying to get remote working jobs by hiding their true identities for the purpose of stealing money for Pyongyang. Many of them pretend to be from other parts of Asia, according to three US government agencies. They are allegedly helping to fund North Korea’s…
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and Elon Musk are engaged in a debate over an issue Musk has made central to his proposed purchase of the platform — spam. In a series of tweets on Monday, Agrawal laid out Twitter’s approach to spam accounts and its challenges dealing with them. Twitter (TWTR) suspends “over half a…
Two prominent lobbying groups representing the tech industry’s biggest companies are asking the US Supreme Court to step in and block a Texas law that lets the state’s residents sue large social media platforms for alleged censorship, two days after a federal appeals court allowed the law to take effect. The Computer & Communications Industry…
China’s retail and factory activity fell sharply in April as wide COVID-19 lockdowns confined workers and consumers to their homes and severely disrupted supply chains, casting a long shadow over the outlook for the world’s second-largest economy. Full or partial lockdowns were imposed in major centres across the country in March and April, including the…
Skyrocketing natural gas prices have raised manufacturing and transportation costs across many U.S. industries, and the situation should persist as the United States exports more gas to Europe to make up for Russian supplies lost to sanctions. U.S. natural gas futures have doubled this year, far more than the increases in retail gasoline and diesel…
India, the world’s second largest producer of wheat, has banned all exports with immediate effect after a heatwave affected the crop. A notice in the government gazette by the directorate of foreign trade, dated Friday, said a rise in global prices for wheat was threatening the food security of India and neighbouring and vulnerable countries….
SMBC Aviation Capital, one of the world’s biggest aircraft lessors, is nearing a deal to acquire smaller rival Goshawk for about $7 billion, including debt, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. The deal between the two privately held, Dublin, Ireland-based lessors could be announced as soon as next week, the sources said, speaking…
Ford Motor Co sold 7 million shares of electric carmaker Rivian Automotive Inc for about $188.2 million, or $26.88 apiece, the U.S. automaker said in a filing on Friday. Ford now holds 86.9 million shares in the California-headquartered company. Rivian is struggling in a competitive market, including competition from Ford’s F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck,…
Perrigo Company PLC (PRGO.N), which makes store-brand baby formulas for retailers, including Walmart Inc (WMT.N) and Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), expects shortages and heightened demand to last for the “balance of the year,” Chief Executive Murray Kessler told Reuters in an interview. The Biden administration this week has come under increasing pressure to address a baby…
Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) has put on hold plans to sell electric cars in India, abandoned a search for showroom space and reassigned some of its domestic team after failing to secure lower import taxes, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The decision caps more than a year of deadlocked talks with government representatives…
Wall Street rallied on Friday, ending a week of wild market gyrations marked by signs of peaking inflation and worries that the Federal Reserve might tighten policy too aggressively. Rebounding megacap tech and tech-adjacent growth stocks led the market higher. These shares thrived when interest rates were low and Fed policy accommodative during the pandemic,…
Apple’s iPod creator has warned the so-called metaverse risks creating more trolls and damaging human interaction. The virtual reality-based metaverse removes the ability “to look into the other person’s face,” Tony Fadell said. “If you put technology between that human connection that’s when the toxicity happens,” he said. The metaverse is a virtual reality realm…
